What is flexible bag?
This flexible bag, one way pillow type, is designed for the transportation of liquids in 20' steel containers. It is conceived as expendable packing for the transportation of not only food-type products in liquid form such as wine and fruit juice concentrates but also of industrial liquids in so far as the latter are not classified as hazardous.
Flexible bags range in size from 10 000 to 24 000 liters (depending on product density), but can be manufactured to accommodate specific capacity requirements. They are designed to maximize utilisation of containers to achieve an optimum payload of 16 - 24 tons, depending on road weight restrictions.
LAF flexibler bags are made using a single-layered, custom
formulated blended polyethylene, the ingredients of which are
approved by the US Food & Drugs Administration (FDA) for the
carriage of a wide range of liquid foodstuffs.
Flexible bags offer you a dynamic, flexible, safe and cost
effective solution for all your bulk liquid transport
requirements.
Comparison between IBC,ISO TANK and FLEXIBLE BAGS
a 20' containers loading capacity and time
(e.g.from Qingdao to Singapore)
Item
IBC
Drum(250liter)
Flexitank
Unit capacityL
1,200
200
/
Quantity
20
80
1
Total VolumeL
24,000
16,000
24,000
Loading capacity (Kg)
24,000
13,600
24,000
Loading time (H)
2
2
1
Unloading time (H)
3
3
1
Amount of manpower
3
3
1
Amount of space
middle
high
low
calculation of charges (USD)
unit price
150
25
700
Packaging cost
2700(18)
2000(80)
700(1)
Loading/ unloading cost
30
50
30
Operation cost
120
120
120
Ocean freight
650
650
650
Total cost
3500
2,870
1500
Saving cost
2000
Ratio of saving (%)
57.14%